Well, we've done it! We've had our first rehearsals for Come Home for Christmas, and I couldn't be more excited about this cast! There's something especially wonderful about bringing old Stage Left friends together with new faces, watching friendships pick up right where they left off, and hearing Christmas music fill the Historic Trinity Playhouse once again. Now comes the fun part: figuring out how to get everyone onstage at the right time! On paper, Come Home for Christmas

From the Executive & Artistic Director of Stage Left Players There's something wonderfully different about standing onstage without a costume, a character, or a script to hide behind. Just you, a microphone, and a story that belongs to you! This Sunday, November 1, I'll have the pleasure of sharing the stage with a wonderful group of friends and neighbors for SPARK Storytellers: BEFORE & AFTER — Stories of What Changed at the Historic Trinity Playhouse. At Stage Left Players,

The excitement is building at the Historic Trinity Playhouse as our talented young cast of Wake Up, Aurora! prepares to bring this original musical to life! Rehearsal Calendar #2 is here! This updated schedule takes us through our final rehearsals, opening night, and our special daytime performances for area schoolchildren on November 23 and 24. With so many characters, musical numbers, and scenes coming together, these final weeks are especially important. Cast members and f

From the desk of the Executive & Artistic Director of Stage Left Players I watched the sign-ups come in for our upcoming original holiday production, Come Home for Christmas, and I have to tell you something. They're coming home! Names are appearing on my screen that make me stop, smile, and remember. Some are our Stage Left Kids—all grown up now! College graduates, young adults building their own lives, performers who haven't stepped onto our stage in years. And here they ar

The USS Improvise lands at Historic Trinity Playhouse on October 17! Something is happening aboard the USS Improvise, and we're not entirely convinced the crew has everything under control! The Dinner Theatre Rejects, under the direction of Paul Dahman, are preparing to boldly go where no Stage Left FUNdraiser has gone before. And they've put together a little video to give you a taste of what's coming. Take a look at the crew in action! If that doesn't convince you that we'r

There is a moment in every youth production when something changes. For weeks, we rehearse. We learn lines and blocking. We find costumes. We build scenery. We remind people where to stand, when to enter, and—for what feels like the hundredth time—which prop they are supposed to be carrying. And then, somehow, it becomes a story. That happened this week with Charlotte’s Web. E.B. White’s beloved story is about a pig named Wilbur and the extraordinary friend who decides his l